URGENT, DEADLINE TO FDA ON GE LABLELING !

[Guest guest]

PLEASE DEMAND FDA TO " LABEL "

ALL GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS, CLEARLY !!!

 

COMMENTS DEADLINE :

APRIL 3RD, 2001 (TUESDAY )

 

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" ReasonToVote "

ReasonToVote (@hagelin.org )

Friday, March 23, 2001 4:53 PM

GE Alert--Apr. 3 Deadline

 

 

NATURAL LAW PARTY NEWS FLASH!

 

TELL THE FDA THAT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS

MUST BE LABELED AND TESTED FOR SAFETY!

 

The Food and Drug Administration is now accepting public

comment on its proposed new rules on genetically engineered

(GE) foods. Despite overwhelming consumer demand, the FDA

has failed to require health and ecological safety testing

or mandatory labeling, and thus puts your health and our

environment at risk and deprives you of the right to know

or choose what you are eating.

 

The proposed rules:

 

* Do not require mandatory pre-market safety testing

* Do not require pre-market environmental review

* Do not require mandatory labeling of GE foods

* Restrict voluntary labeling of non-GE foods

* Require a mere letter of notification prior to the

marketing of a GE food

* Fail to ensure public access to adequate information

for independent review

* Are supported by industry and opposed by consumer groups

 

 

 

The FDA needs to hear from hundreds of thousands of Americans

that: (note: the following can be the points in your letter to FDA) :

 

* The FDA must require mandatory pre-market comprehensive

environmental review. Unlike conventional pollutants,

where a given amount of pollutant causes a limited amount

of damage, a small number of mutant genes could have a

population explosion and reproduce forever, causing

unlimited and irreparable damage.

 

* The FDA must require mandatory pre-market long-term health

testing. GE products could be toxic, cause allergic

responses, have lower nutritional value, and compromise

immune responses in consumers.

 

* The FDA must require mandatory labeling of GE products.

Without mandatory labeling, neither consumers nor health

professionals will know if an allergic or toxic reaction

was the result of a genetically engineered food. Consumers

would be deprived of the critical knowledge needed to hold

food producers liable should any of these novel products

be hazardous.

 

* The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the industries

it purports to be regulating. People have been allowed to

work for a biotech company, then work for the FDA writing the

regulatory rules on that company's product, then go back to

working for the company. Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory

committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest.

 

 

 

PLEASE ACT TODAY. THE DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS

 

TUESDAY, APRIL 3.

 

Email your comments to:

 

fdadockets (@oc.fda.gov )

with " Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598 "

in the Subject line.

 

 

OR MAIL your comments to :

 

Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)

Food and Drug Administration

5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061

Rockville, MD 20852

U.S.A.

 

 

For more information: http://www.organicconsumers.org

Tel: 218-226-4164 (in USA )

 

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